LETTER: Failure of risk analysis brought us to this point
The brightest and best believed the threat to world stability would be weather related
The Boston Global editorial opinion you republished belies the reality of how the global consensus, call it the Davos Forum, under the tutorage of the elite cabal, misunderstood the underlying risks the world was facing (“Donald Trump chose market over lives (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/2020-03-31-donald-trump-chose-market-over-lives/)”, March 31).
If one examines the latest World Economic Forum Global Risks report, the risk of infectious disease was not even in the top 10 in either probability of occurrence, or the impact thereof. The top risks were the perennial climate-related global warming (now branded change) and the concomitant impacts...
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